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English · Grade 5
Learners become word detectives: they split words into prefixes, bases and suffixes, use Greek and Latin roots as clues, and read sentences around a new word for definition, synonym, antonym and example clues. The last lesson teaches the academic words that appear in school directions, such as analyze, compare and summarize.
English · Grade 5
Learners read a challenging informational article about beavers as wetland engineers and practise the moves strong readers use when a text gets hard: noticing confusion and fixing it, breaking long sentences into chunks, using headings and other text features, and stating the main idea of each section. A new article about snow fences checks transfer.
English · Grade 5
Through an original story about a broken tomato plant and a hard choice, learners practise quoting a text accurately, inferring characters' feelings and motives from clues, choosing the evidence that best supports an inference, and keeping what a story says separate from what a reader figures out. A short constructed response pulls it together.
English · Grade 5
Learners read an original three-scene story about two partners building a craft-stick bridge, told by a narrator who misjudges her partner, and a public-domain poem by Emily Dickinson. They find themes from how characters respond to challenges, see how a narrator's point of view shapes what readers learn, explain how scenes and stanzas fit together, and write a summary.
English · Grade 5
Learners read several short sources about monarch butterflies: a chronological article, a problem-and-solution article, a chart from a fictional nature center and two accounts of the same tagging day. They compare text structures, analyze how two accounts differ in point of view, combine information from several sources to answer questions and write a paragraph that integrates two sources.
English · Grade 5
Learners take apart a student newspaper article that argues for a school garden: they find the author's point, connect each reason to the evidence that supports it, separate facts from opinions, spot evidence that does not fit, and judge how well each reason is supported. A new speech to a town council checks transfer.
English · Grade 5
Using an original mentor story about a family during a power outage, learners study the choices narrative writers make on purpose: an opening that orients the reader, dialogue and action that show feelings, transitions and pacing that control time, sensory details and precise words, and a conclusion that reflects. They plan, draft and check their own narrative.
English · Grade 5
Learners study how an informative explanation is built, using an original model text about how honeybees make honey. They write focused introductions, group facts into sections with headings, develop sections with definitions, facts, examples and quotations, link ideas with transition words, choose precise science vocabulary and write a conclusion. They then draft their own explanation about sea otters from research notes.
English · Grade 5
Learners write their own opinion piece about whether a fictional school should start a Reading Buddies program. Working from a fact sheet, they state a clear opinion, plan reasons in a logical order, choose relevant facts and details, link ideas with words such as specifically and consequently, and write a conclusion. A new fact sheet about library hours checks transfer.
English · Grade 5
Learners use grammar as a writer's toolkit. They explain what conjunctions, prepositions and interjections do, form the perfect verb tenses and fix tense shifts, place commas correctly in series, after introductory words and in direct address, and revise choppy or wordy sentences by expanding, combining and reducing them.
English · Grade 5
Learners investigate why leaves change color in fall. They turn a topic into focused research questions and keywords, take notes in their own words, record where information came from in a simple list of sources, check whether sources are reliable, and figure out whether a media message is trying to inform, persuade, entertain or sell.
English · Grade 5
In this capstone, learners follow a fictional fifth grader's inquiry into cafeteria food waste from question to presentation, then carry out their own. They pose a focused question and plan how to answer it, draft and revise a report with evidence and sources, present findings clearly, and defend them by answering questions with evidence and honesty about limits.
